A noisy protest greeted Reclaiming Canada conference-goers on Saturday after a failed attempt to get the event booted from a city-owned facility.
1 Million Voices for Inclusion spokesperson Monique May said there should be no room for hatred in Victoria. The group had said that several conference speakers “have a history of spouting hateful rhetoric that dehumanizes transgender people” and asked the city-owned conference centre to not host the event.
Everyone is welcome at the non-partisan event, which about 500 people are attending, she said. “We don’t have any politicians this year speaking.”B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad was a speaker at last year’s Reclaiming Canada conference, which also featured as speakers Anna Kindy, the B.C. Conservative candidate for North Island, and Stephen Malthouse, who was recently dropped as the Ladysmith-Oceanside B.C. Conservative candidate.
However, John Koury, B.C. Conservative candidate for the Cowichan Valley and former two-time North Cowichan councillor, was spotted in the Reclaiming Canada conference’s VIP lunch room filing up a plate of salad on Saturday afternoon. Koury, who confirmed his identity to the Times Colonist, declined to speak about his attendance.NDP Victoria-Beacon Hill MLA Grace Lore said Koury’s attendance indicates that the B.C. Conservatives have chosen candidates “interested in divisive politics.
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